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LONG fuel queues have hit Lagos State and other major cities across the country, as the problem of logistics hinders efforts by the Pipeline Products and Marketing Company, PPMC, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to discharge products from its imported cargoes for distribution to marketers.
More green energy and climate-friendly projects target Africa than ever before, but the numbers still lag behind Asia and Latin America, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) announced today.
Ghana, in the next four years, will be among the petroleum exporting countries in Africa.
A senior government official Tuesday snubbed a parliamentary committee inquiry into the loss of Sh7.6 billion worth of oil products through Triton Petroleum Limited.
SA SHOULD strive for a target of 25% renewable energy contribution to consumption by 2025, according to Irish wind energy developer Mainstream Renewable Power's CEO, Eddie O'Connor.
FORMER Eskom chairman Bobby Godsell yesterday declined an invitation to return to the utility, dealing a heavy blow to the government and to Public Enterprises Minister Barbara Hogan in particular.
PROTESTING youths from the oil rich communities of Ondo State have reportedly disrupted the exploration activities of Conoil Nigeria Limited following alleged breached of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with the communities.
Last Sunday, Rwanda entered a groundbreaking agreement with two international firms Eco-fuels Global LLC, from the United States and Eco Positive Ltd from the UK.
About 20 public servants made up of technicians, engineers and administrators will leave Ogun State for China to understudy the assembling of Mini power plants that will be installed in the state in the first quarter of 2010.
Over 1000 former militants in the holding camp at Aluu, behind the University of Port Harcourt in Rivers State yesterday staged a violent demonstration, which spilled to the road separating Delta and Abuja campuses of the university and the East-West road where they blocked for several hours.
Long queues again resurfaced in Lagos, Abuja and parts of the North yesterday as logistics problem reportedly hindered efforts by the Pipeline Products and Marketing Company (PPMC), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to discharge products from its imported cargoes for distribution to marketers.
Tenders for the construction of a garbage-powered plant that will produce electricity will be posted in the first week of December.
Kenya will next week host a green electricity conference to develop a mixed power generation plan to meet rising needs.
Kenyans will exchange their ordinary bulbs for energy conserving ones at no cost from January next year under a government energy saving project.
For Nigeria to be one of the 20 strong economies in the world by year 2020, energy planning at the federal and state governments levels must be inculcated into the national development plans.
THE exploration licence of Tullow Oil, the firm exploring for oil and gas in the Lake Albertine Graben, has been extended for two years to allow the firm conduct oil field appraisal. Field appraisal means drilling more wells to determine the size and quantity of an oil or gas field and how to develop it most efficiently.
A SHORTAGE of petrol has continued on the Copperbelt and Lusaka and industry sources have attributed the erratic supply to failure by Indeni Petroleum Refinery to resume pumping petrol.
NIGERIAN National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has deplored the activities of operators of fuel retail sites in the country, calling on the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) to sanction prevailing rascality in the market.
A cleric and Chairman of the Christ Apostolic Church, Orisun Ife in Ibadan, Oyo State, Pastor G. M. Makinwa has called on President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to forget deregulating the nation's oil sector in the interest of the suffering masses.
Governors Liyel Imoke of Cross River State and his Lagos state counterpart, Babatunde Raji Fashola, will lead other governors and stakeholders to a brainstorming session on ways of improving internally-generated revenue (IGR) of states and shift attention from oil to non-oil income of states.
Power generation at Mtera and Kidatu dams is set to decline further owing to decreasing water levels. The situation has been attributed to rainfall decrease in the country's southern highlands.
Botswana's electricity supply is to remain under stress until the completion of the fist leg of the Morupule Power Station due in 2012.
The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), at the weekend, unveiled the $1 billion Gbaran-Ubie Integrated Oil and Gas Project, with an assurance that the projected 6,000 megawatts of power sought by the Federal Government will be fed with the gas produced from the project.
Following the Federal Government's decision to end gas flaring, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) says over $1 billion have so far been spent on the Gbaran-Ubie Integrated Oil and Gas project within the last 18 months.
From indications and pronouncements of the federal government, there's no-going back on deregulation. Deregulation has come to stay and so would it be! The president himself has affirmed it several times that government's decision on deregulation was "inevitable". Nigerians had better start accepting the reality of the deregulation policy on the downstream sector.
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